Sam Houston is the fourth generation of an elephant family at the Fort Worth Zoo. On April 1, Texas’ Fort Worth Zoo welcomed ...

BEIJING — Elephants in a wandering herd in southwest China have walked down paved roads and poked their trunks through windows as they near a city of 7 million people. Authorities have rushed to ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

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The Fort Worth Zoo has welcomed a new Asian elephant calf named Sam Houston, in honor of the historic Texas leader. Sam is the largest Asian elephant calf ever born at the zoo, standing 36 inches tall ...

An endangered Asian elephant calf was born last week at the Houston Zoo. The Texas zoo said 34-year-old Asian elephant Shanti gave birth to 314-pound Kirby on November 15 at 3 p.m. CST. Shanti had ...

TULSA, Okla. — There are fewer than 50,000 Asian Elephants remaining in the wild, and local experts are encouraging people to do their part to keep that number from dwindling. 2 News walked with staff ...

As the Kabini reservoir shrinks and dries through the summer months, it exposes thousands of hectares of moist land where ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...